Hammond looked at William with an ominous glare. “Sometimes to fight darkness,” she said, “you must search from with it. Despite whatever Hernandez told you, and whatever you think of me, you must know we are on the same side. Whatever I do is for the good of this organization. That is what I fight for. That is all that matters. UNIRO, as the world knows it, must not fall.”
“What you did, what you hide, could still cost John his life,” said William. “If we can’t win with transparency then we are no better than Terra Nova.”
“They don’t care how they win, so neither should we. For all the nonsense they preach Terra Nova is right about one thing, current government is complacent. Those that ultimately control this place sit on their asses, debating endlessly while the world rips itself apart. We don’t have any more time to waste. It is time we fight Terra Nova with its own rules.”
“Terra Nova is on the run after yesterday. We stopped them in the light, not the shadows, for the entire world to see.”
Hammond chuckled. “You think what happened yesterday will stop them? They will be back soon. They will not rest till the old world they hate is razed to the ground as a pile of ashes. That is why we must do everything we can, now.”
“But at what cost, ma’am? I used to think like you, complete the mission at all cost. I let good men die with that reasoning of recklessness. They were sacrificed in vain because of my selfish desire to amend for my past, my failures. How many are you willing to sacrifice in vain, ma’am?”
Hammond slowly looked up at William. Half her face was in shadow, the other half tinted blue. Crossing her arms, she began to slowly walk towards the door.
“To win this fight,” she whispered, “as many as it takes.”
The time to rise and stand for our future is now. There are those who wish to silence our progress, ignore our issues, and think only for themselves. But our challenges cannot wait, and we face a great many of them, none of which are impossible to tackle. With science, facts, unity, and hope the human race can save itself. I have no doubt. The future awaits our present. What will you choose to do?
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This is only the end of the beginning…
My name is Zachary Eichholz. I have a Bachelors of Science in Sustainability Studies and I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences. With them, I intend to save the world. When I’m not writing or going to class, it’s a sure bet you can find me watching a movie, playing tennis, or driving to see a rocket launch. The End of the Beginning is my first novel.
Tragedy. Death. Loss. That is all retired U.S. Air Force pararescuer Captain William Emerson has ever known. Both nature and man have controlled his life, and taken all he thought he was. Reduced to a shattered shell, William is ready to end it all when, after years of isolation, he is unexpectedly approached with a chance to begin anew. With Earth’s ecological systems nearing collapse, society finds within itself one final gamble to find its hope for a better future in the form of a new United Nations organization, called UNIRO, designed to rescue and rehabilitate the planet and its people. Swept back into the business of saving others under this new organization, William must first learn how to save himself in a new position that sees him struggle to become a leader again. As he trains and rebuilds his life within UNIRO, he finds strength through friendship, inspiration, and sheer human will, realizing he is not alone on his endeavors of recovery.
But UNIRO is not the only organization preparing to fight for change. A new sect of terrorist, formed from the inaction and corruption of an unjust system that serves only the powerful few, rises from the shadows of desperation and take matters of change into their own genocidal hands. Attack after attack begins to challenge the budding UNIRO and brings the planet closer to the brink. William is thrown back into chaos as suspicions of allegiances arise from within his own ranks and terror finds its way into the very heart of civilization’s final hope for survival.
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